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Written by Rawpulse
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Saturday, 04 February 2006 |
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Using Filters to make some great text effects.
Text effects are very easy to create in Flash, especially since
the release of Flash Professional 8. This tutorial focuses on the new
Filters and how they can be used to make some great text effects.
Start
by creating a new document, with a 300x150 sized stage. Type your text
on the stage by selecting the text tool, clicking on the stage and
entering the text. Select the text with the selection tool and convert
it to a symbol by right clicking, and selecting "Convert To Symbol...".
Select movie clip from the Behaviour choices, as seen below:
Next,
you will need to add a filter. To do this, you will need to locate the
Properties window at the bottom of the screen. In Flash 8, Filters have
been added as an extra tab on the Properties menu. It can be seen
highlighted in red below:
Once
you click the tab, you will see more options. If you have your symbol
selected, you will be able to add a filter to it, by selecting the
small blue + sign. Below are some examples of effects created with
Filters, along with the Filter menu, so you can see exactly what
settings are needed to make it.
Text with no effect added to it:
Text with a glow and knockout:
Settings:
Weak glow:
Settings:
Different colored glows:
Drop shadow:
Settings for drop shadow:
As
you can see, there is a huge range of effects you can make. The
examples above only show the basics of what filter effects can do, but
they bring a new life to website graphics within Flash. If you have had
problems with this tutorial, please post on the KnowFlash.com Forum. If you have created a good looking effect using this method, feel free to post it in our Showcase section on the forum.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 February 2006 )
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